Inspiration: The Bible explains to us in this scripture and in John 1:14 that Jesus is the Word of God. One Bible teacher likes to say that the Bible is the expressed image of Jesus, for every time you meet up with the Bible, you meet up with Jesus. This is how God speaks to you through the scriptures.
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Discussion Questions: Do you rush through your Bible reading? How can you let the Holy Spirit teach you as you read the Bible more slowly?
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Scripture: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (1 John 1:1)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Thank you that Jesus is the Word who was with you from the beginning. Now I know that the Bible is the expressed Word of Jesus and that when I read the Bible, it is like Jesus talking. Wow, I know my faith is increasing. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: Many women have a problem with the word ‘submit’ in this scripture and many men have a problem with loving their wives as Jesus loves the church. However Christian counselors help explain that submitting does not mean for the wife to be a doormat but to submit to the husband’s role of priest in the home. If the husband takes this role and loves and cherishes his wife, couples can flow together in their God given roles.
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Discussion Questions: How can you encourage couples to go on marriage enhancement courses? How can you encourage couples to keep dating regularly after they are married?
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Scripture: Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her (Ephesians 5:22,25)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I pray for all Christian marriages to be strong. Let couples submit to each other and let the husband be willing to give his life for his wife as in the example Jesus showed us. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: Many models were asked the question “Is there any part of you that you are unhappy with?” and most of these beautiful women said, “Yes, there is.” Even though everyone thought they were gorgeous, these models were still not happy since they did not have Jesus in their hearts. In the Bible, Esther saw that her gift of beauty was from the Lord and was to be used for God’s plan to deliver Israel. Esther was obedient to God and the Israelites were rescued.
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Discussion Questions: Will more money or beauty make you eternally successful? What does it mean to surrender or lose one’s life for Jesus’ sake?
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Scripture: For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. (Matthew 16:25)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, If I choose to live for myself and rebel against you I will lose eternal life. But I choose to be dead to the world and alive unto you to live for ever with you. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: A church leader was sharing about the problem of child kidnapping in the Philippines. One day one man’s young daughter was kidnapped. The church prayed for two weeks and the father was so stressed out that he was ready to admit himself into hospital. Just then the kidnappers released the daughter and no harm had been done to her. There was great joy in this answer to prayer, as the daughter was returned home.
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Discussion Questions: This kidnapping shows the heartaches of a father over a lost child. Do you feel for God over His lost children? Does His joy over a repentant sinner motivate you to bring God’s lost children home to Him?
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Scripture: I say to you that likewise there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance. (Luke 15:7)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Let me realize your priorities that you look for 1 lost person over 99 Christians that are not lost. Let me seek the lost too. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: One Bible teacher told us the difference between Christianity and other world religions. He said the world religions are based on doing certain rituals or believing in some leader who is dead and buried. Christianity is very different. Jesus Christ is God’s only Son sent beacuse God loved the world so much. Jesus lived life without sin, and laid down His life to be the sacrificial offering to redeem all man’s sins. Jesus’s resurrection from the dead proved eternal life. Christianity is not a set of rituals but a personal relationship with God where Jesus loves us constantly and unconditionally and sins are forgiven.
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Discussion Questions: What is conscience? How are people convicted of sin? How can you tell non-Christians the reasons why some have a guilty conscience? Why is Jesus different than any person that has ever lived on the earth? How does Jesus set people free from a guilty conscience?
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Scripture: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. (Luke 24:47)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, Help me to tell others that Jesus can forgive them and save them too. Let this message go to all the nations and let me do my part. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: I had just sat down at my friend’s dinner table when two drunks pulled up in the driveway. They knocked on the door and asked to use the restroom. We saw this as a opportunity to witness to them so my friend took one of them outside to share Jesus with him and I took the other into the kitchen. As I prayed with the one in the kitchen, God sobered him up and he started to cry. I led him in prayer to ask Jesus into his life. We got their phone number to follow up with them and I was able to take one of them to church. We praised God to hear that that the other man had given up drinking after that very night.
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Discussion Questions: Are there times when people are in danger and you feel compelled to tell them about Jesus? How can you encourage more of the lost to come to church?
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Scripture: Then the master said to the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled. (Luke 14:23)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I ask forgiveness for being afraid to share the gospel with people in the streets. Let me not be fooled by fear, or inferiority or excuses for that is the devil trying to stop people from hearing about you. It is a command, Lord, to fill your house, so let me do my part. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: This is a great scripture for those who think that they can earn their way into heaven by their good works. Today’s society is so performance orientated that people assume that this is God’s way also. One lady had been heading up organizations in her church for decades and thought she could earn entrance into heaven by all her church work. After she saw that she had to respond to Jesus Christ by faith, she came into a new personal relationship with Jesus committing her life totally to Him.
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Discussion Questions: Are you trying to earn God’s blessing? How did people in the Bible receive from God?
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Scripture: For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. (Ephesians 2:8-9)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I realize from this scripture that I could never earn my way into your love or blessings. I just need simple child-like faith to believe I am in good standing with you. I accept this salvation freely Lord. Free me from trying to please you by deeds without faith. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: Perception is reality for most people. Some see only the negative side of life. Their glass is half empty while another’s glass is half full. Negative people often are prejudiced against everyone in every situation. I was in a business meeting where everyone heard an inspired message but this negative person did not hear or see anything hopeful at all. It is these people that especially need the light of Jesus Christ to change their vision and let them see things clearly, the way God sees them.
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Discussion Questions: Do you see situations the way God sees them? How can you change your perception to see that God is with you and for you in all circumstances?
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Scripture: The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore, when your eye is good, your whole body also is full of light. But when your eye is bad, your body also is full of darkness. (Luke 11:34)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, If at times my eyes wander towards the lusts of the world, let me fix my eyes on you and your Word and your work for me to do. In Jesus’ name I pray.
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Inspiration: A church leader was in a motel room preparing to bring the Word of God to Japan. Suddenly he felt a tremendous fear on him to the point that he was frozen. He remembered this scripture and started praying. Eventually the fear left him and he was filled with peace and the presence of God. This church leader teaches that you must speak scriptures when the devil tries to derail you.
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Discussion Questions: Jesus quoted scripture to the devil when he was tested. Do you use scriptures to resist evil? How can you learn more about spiritual warfare?
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Scripture: Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. (James 4:7)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I submit myself totally to you. I know that I can I resist the devil’s evil temptation and lies, so that he has to flee from me. In Jesus’ powerful and awesome name I pray.
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Inspiration: A grandmother prayed the blood of Jesus over her family. She was praying for her daughter and granddaughter on the day of a terrorist attack. Her daughter worked on an upper floor of a building and her granddaughter was in Day Care on the second floor of the same building. Ten minutes before the bomb went off, the daugher had to take the granddaughter home because she was acting up. As the daughter was driving home with her child, the bomb went off killing many people in that building.
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Discussion Questions: Do you plead the blood of Jesus over you, your family and your assets every day? How do you envision God’s angels that are sent to protect Christians?
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Scripture: And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death. (Revelations 12:11)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I can overcome evil by asking in prayer for the blood of Jesus and for your promises as in your Word. Thank you Jesus for the victory. I claim the blood of Jesus every day for protection around my home, traveling, family and business. We need your protection Jesus. In your name I pray.
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Inspiration: One Bible teacher was speaking on the subject of why mankind is such a unique creation compared to the rest of the animals God created. Not only was mankind created in God’s image, but God gave us the ability to reason and to choose, even the ability to reject the one who created us. That is why mankind must make the choice on their eternal destination.
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Discussion Questions: How do you picture God the Father? What does He look like? How do you picture the Holy Spirit? What does He look like? How do you picture Jesus?
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Scripture: Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ (Genesis 1:26)
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Prayer: Heavenly Father, I was created in your image. You gave Adam dominion over all. Adam sinned yet Jesus regained that dominion through His death and resurrection. Please let me think on this to understand what authority you have given to us and who I am in Christ Jesus as your child. In Jesus name I pray.
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